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ASN Morning Read: Blatter Hypes Up U.S. As 2026 Host
FIFA's president discussed the possibility of the United States hosting the 2026 World Cup, acknowledging that "opportunities are bigger now" than when the country hosted back in 1994.
BY
Jesse Yomtov
Posted
September 09, 2014
8:28 AM
Sepp Blatter talked up the United States’ chances of hosting the 2026 World Cup: "Perhaps there's a big commercial opportunity arising now in the United States because of the tremendous television audiences that are booming and that the World Cup has also encouraged in its domestic game as well. We did well with football when it first went to the United States but the opportunities are bigger now.”
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